The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins

The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins
ISBN-10
0897895835
ISBN-13
9780897895835
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
202
Language
English
Published
1998-01-01
Publisher
Greenwood Publishing Group
Author
Anne Sutherland

Description

Belize, until recently undeveloped, underpopulated, and unknown, has become a star destination for ecotourism, a crossroads for the international drug trade, a sanctuary for persecuted people, and a giant nature reserve. This postmodern, multicultural nation in the margins is now being made, or remade, in a globalized, deterritorialized world that rewards social and cultural creativity. Theories of globalization that paint marginal areas as losers in the world economy are challenged by this book, which documents the history and the rapid globalization of Belize as it contronts postmodernity.

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